Texas Special Pre-Sale Opportunity on Friday:
Texas Motor Speedway will offer a special one-day, pre-sale opportunity to the public Friday for individual frontstretch tickets to November’s AAA Texas 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race that will be available for as low as $24.
The price point will be the lowest available for the AAA Texas 500 scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 2, and offers a 20% discount on the lowest frontstretch seating currently available for Sprint Cup Series races at Texas Motor Speedway.
The AAA Texas 500 pre-sale begins at 12:01 a.m. CT (late Thursday evening/early Friday morning) and continues until 11:59 p.m. Friday night online at www.texasmotorspeedway.com or from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. by calling the Texas Motor Speedway ticket office at (817) 215-8500.
After this one-day, pre-sale event, individual tickets for the AAA Texas 500 will not be available again until the official on-sale date of Friday, Aug. 15.(TMS)(6-12-2014)
Anyone who looked at the winnings from the Pocono 400 probably did a double take. Dale Earnhardt Jr., the winner of the race, earned $198,965. Brad Keselowski, who finished second, earned $213,783. NASCAR, in order to encourage teams to run every race, decades ago created a winner's circle program. Teams that win can enter the program for a couple of years. NASCAR gives the team extra money in exchange for the driver going to a track for an appearance to promote an event a few weeks before the race. Every organization is limited to two drivers that are eligible for this bonus money. Earnhardt is not one of Hendrick Motorsports' two winners circle drivers. Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon are the two Hendrick drivers on the program. The winner's circle program is not the only program that can cause confusion in winnings. Manufacturers often offer bonus money for a top finisher among their ranks. And several sponsors offer contingency awards as long as the team has the decal of that sponsor on the car. Some teams can't run certain decals because of a conflict with team sponsors and therefore are not eligible for the award. For instance, Tony Stewart won the 3M lap leader award even though he ranked well behind Keselowski in laps led at Pocono because Penske chooses not to run the 3M sticker to avoid conflict with its sponsors.(see full story at Sporting News)(6-12-2014)